PublishedErschienen: 2012-06-21. Modernization has been one of the most intensely negotiated concepts of the theoretical and historical social sciences over the last fifty years. Conceptions of the term have changed considerably during the course of this discussion.
An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. Adjectives are used to describe a person, object, place or event. In many instances, an adjective provides a specific meaning to the word it is describing.
A dependent clause in a complex sentence may also be an adjective clause. If it is used as an adjective,âif it modifies a noun or pronoun,âit is an adjective clause. An adjective clause may modify any noun or any word used as a noun in the sentence. Here gentleman (a complement in the main clause) is modified by the adjective clause who was born in the village (a). Whom I wanted is an adjective clause modifying the noun man.